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I think a lot of people are going to be severly disappointed when a bottom-feeder no-budget company like INSP or Vision/Coastal winds up buying these stations instead of these pie-eyed fantasies. Instead of playing speculator, let's just look at these indisputable truths. And they aren't pretty: The television industry is not a buyer's market in any sense of the word and hasn't been since interest rates got raised substantially The few remaining megachains—Scripps, Tegna and Gray—are either too built up or are already in many of these existing markets. Hearst doesn't buy anything unless it's a gigantic waste of money like spending $200M+ for freaking WBBH in a older market in a permanently uncompetitive state politically. Great thinking there, y'all. Apollo Global Management isn't buying anything and may be forced to sell off Cox Media Group if their stupid fever dream of buying Paramount actually happened. Graham isn't buying anything because they just don't. The networks ain't buying anything, and one of them (CBS) is in limbo right now since Shari Redstone took it off the market. The FCC might just repeal the UHF Discount rule (again) just to further erase anything Pai did and not grandfather a thing The continued diminishing returns of retransmission revenue is only going to get worse. Those golden geese are no longer not laying eggs, they're entering hospice care and the likes of Nexstar don't have a plan B. So as you can clearly see... Sinclair is absolutely screwed.

I’d rather see KTUL go to Hearst to be honest I don’t see Scripps ever selling KJRH.

I've said it before and will undoubtedly say it again: ABC could have teamed up with a company interested in the other Allbritton station (Hearst, Graham, Tegna, etc.), help that company outbid Sinclair, and split WJLA off from the other stations afterwards.

It has no chance in the current Senate.

Don't worry, Perry -- Rand Paul is coming to your rescue! Shouldn't they be referring to him as Senator Paul? I hope the bill crashes and burns. All it would do is help Nexstar, SInclair, and Gray gobble up more broadcasters, leaving smaller broadcasters such as Hearst and Graham (and smaller) unable to acquire stations because they keep getting outbid.

Those look really good. I miss living in a Hearst market.

Nah, I think Cox Media is better owning/operating WPGH and WPNT, mostly because WPXI produces newscasts for WPGH.

I would like to see WPGH sold to Fox Television Stations, Inc. (But I doubt that's going to happen). I would also like to see WJLA, KTUL, KDNL, WNWO, WXLV to either Cox, Scripps, or another broadcast group. IMO, WJLA should've been an ABC O&O, but I know it's been said many times that Disney doesn't buy stations. And Tegna never owned a station in Tulsa, but it would be a good fit for KTUL, I remember many moons ago when Belo (Former WFAA Flagship owner) owned KOTV before selling it to Griffin. One last thing, I would like to see WOAI/KABB to Nexstar and KEYE to be CBS O&O, but again, I doubt that's going to happen.

I know this is not Speculatron though...and we don't know a lot of the details. This may all just fall through as well.

Yeah, something unexpected probably yanked him off. Shows can last for years on the Tube, and then boom! copyright strike hell. But even Internet Archive isn't immune to the yanking...my old '3' channel got locked due to multiple takedowns. Most videos are still there, but I can't upload anything new.

I suspect the entire ex-Fisher portfolio is up for grabs. If so, who would potentially buy out these little eastern WA CBS stations? Personally, I'd love to see Scripps take it over, as they seem to have decent news product on their Montana CBS stations. But will they?

Apparently stations will have the option of carrying it overnight or of carrying just an hour of the show

I have a question, is WFOR still one of the lower rated CBS stations or does that title now belong to someone else? I know WCIX/WFOR was a disaster for years.

If they were to sell a station in a smaller market, it would be WFXL, a FOX afilliate in Albany, Georgia. And it got me to thinking, if Gray was to acquire WFXL from Sinclair, they need to keep the FOX affiliation and restart a news operation with a 10pm newscast produced by WALB, the NBC station, to start out with. As for a major market scenario, I predict that a company such as Gray or Nexstar would acquire the Seattle ABC (KOMO) and CW (KUNS) affiliates. As for what is going to happen, this will get interesting as time progresses and I look forward to finding out who will acquire those stations.

I hope KDNL gets acquired by all companies, Scripps. And sell of WPGH and WPNT to Cox Media, which would be somehow perfect for WPXI.

we've come to a point where Scripps isn't much better.

Time to be realistic. Don't waste your energy speculating which existing broadcasters with cap space could buy these stations. It's not happening. These station sales will be the broadcasting industry equivalent of selling bundled mortgages or medical debt. Sinclair needs cash. The companies that will purchase these assets will be private equity investors who can drain these stations dry without remorse and then hold on to them until there is another opportunity to sell the spectrum these stations broadcast on back to the federal government.

He can only buy WPIX if he sells a boatload of stations. He is not willing to do that. Time for him to end the Mission charade and walk away.

It does mention it would be a 2 hr extension of the current show which will continue to air on NFL Network. So the earliest it could run on the affiliates is 10am-12noon, so it’s not out of the question for it to be on after Good Day.

Not only will he not get it, he'll stubbornly refuse to sell anything in order to buy it. This is the same clown who runs a company that proudly boasted on their own website they could buy ABC "with little friction". And no one has seemingly considered this is why the FCC has started to crack down on them.

He has to have WPIX. Mark my words.

It's gonna be hilarious when one of the pay TV companies permanently lock him out because retrans revenue is nothing more than diminishing returns. Nexstar is the Blockbuster Video of the television industry. And where's Blockbuster now?

KTLA still does live streaming, as does as KRON in San Francisco. The rest of Nexstar's news-producing stations stream their newscasts on delay. As for Sook not seeing the value in streaming overall is such ass-backwards thinking.

WGN is probably their only station that not only streams live, but has their own streaming app on Roku. What else would you expect from the godfather of shaking down the pay TV companies for cash?

Perry's fully subsidizing TVNC and paying industry has-beens Harry Jessell and Hank Price to write drivel advocating for unfettered deregulation. Reality and logic do not apply in that joke of a website. Let's check in a year or two when the CW is bereft of affiliates in multiple major markets and his "grand plan" with the CW winds up being a total dud.